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lgblgblgb / fake86

fake86

Fake86+: fork of Fake86 (a 8086 PC emulator), being reworked, extended, seriously work-in-progress ...

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Fake86+: fork of Fake86 (a 8086 PC emulator), being reworked, extended, seriously work-in-progress ...

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Observed mentions: 2025-08-19 17:41:45 UTC to 2025-08-19 19:37:43 UTC.

012025-08-19 17:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-19 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 19, 17:002025-08-19 18:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-19 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 19, 18:002025-08-19 19:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-19 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 19, 19:00

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Aug 19, 17:002025-08-19 17:00:00 UTC2025-08-19 18:00:00 UTC101
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Aug 19, 19:002025-08-19 19:00:00 UTC2025-08-19 20:00:00 UTC101

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> Why not work on it? Isn't there a fairly substantial return on investment for someone in Russia who does that? This is not meant as a put down or an insult. Just general befuddlement because it seems like a no-brainer to me. I have no probs reading and listen in english, but writing is bad caused lack of practice. > So cpu.[ch] are from fake86 -- via faux86 or straight from fake86? What version did you fork? That is something that would be good to put in the readme. I think it's mixture of all availble version, but base is from https://github.com/lgblgblgb/fake86 RP2040 drivers is mostly by murmulator community, and initial code by from https://github.com/AlexEkb4ever the creator of murmulator devboard hardware. They're also rewriten and improved by my, but initial from Alex My code or often deep rewrite of others code is in ./src/ exce
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pt emu8950 and cpu.(c|h). MiniFB for win32 is striped down version of minifb laying around at github, linuxminifb is my implementation for linux. About structs and so on, i'm not C coder at all i've started with C from scratch two years ago in my spare time :) So this project, if we trace from inital commit till now is mirror of my growth as C coder :) Also, about Linux/Win32 versions. Win32 version used for overal algo debuggin. Linux version is just 'because why not?' Typescript is my everyday toy and tool (memory economy? cpu cycles waste... huh!). Network Redirector uses >=DOS 4 structs, main difference between dos versions is CDS struct and SDA, which is easely can be changed. There is pre-configured boot FDD0 image for which should be used to achieve best emulator configuration and performance.
In Intel 80286 emulator for Raspberry Pico
What's the likelihood that it's a hex dump one of these? * https://github.com/virtualxt/virtualxt/tree/develop/bios Because if you look back far enough you'll find that this is based upon something called fake86 written by a Mike Chambers in 2010, of which there are many half-written derivatives including this: * https://github.com/lgblgblgb/fake86/tree/master obviously replicated here: * https://github.com/xrip/pico-286/blob/0d2c76ba51572addaeed8a... and which loads a pcxtbios.bin file in several flavours, including but not limited to: * https://github.com/lgblgblgb/fake86/tree/master/bin/data
In Intel 80286 emulator for Raspberry Pico

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